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Feb 04 2021
News
Marjorie Taylor Greene Removed from House Committees
The House voted 230-199 to remove Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) from the Education and Budget committees on Thursday evening.
Democrats pushed for Greene’s removal because of numerous past statements and social media posts in support of conspiracy theories, bigotry, and the execution of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.). Greene has expressed skepticism over
National Review (News)Jan 01 2024
Headline Roundup
What New Laws Will 2024 Bring?
2024 is here, and so are many new laws and Supreme Court decisions.
State Laws: States across the country are enacting new laws on abortion, immigration, crime, education, minimum wage, and more.
Federal Laws: One of the most impactful new federal laws mandates more transparency on information that businesses must report to the federal government.
Supreme Court: The
Newsweek Fox News Digital NBC News DigitalApr 27 2024
Headline Roundup
Are Pro-Palestinian Protests at American Universities Going Too Far?
Extended pro-Palestinian protests at American colleges and universities like New York’s Columbia University over the past few weeks have sparked dialogue across the media spectrum.
Not Peaceful: Columbia Professor John McWhorter, writing for the New York Times (Left bias), criticized the Columbia protests as “not peaceful” and protestors for believing “Jewish students and faculty should
New York Times (Opinion) Newsweek National Review (Opinion)Jan 11 2022
Headline Roundup
College Graduates Claim Major Universities Use Unfair Financial Aid Practices
On Sunday, five U.S. college graduates filed a lawsuit against 16 major U.S. universities, claiming the schools violated financial aid antitrust laws.
The schools mentioned include Duke, Northwestern, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, and the University of Chicago. The suit alleges that the universities shared an unfair practice for determining student financial aid
The Daily Caller Reuters CNN DigitalApr 23 2024
Headline Roundup
Student Protests Grow Across Country Over Israel-Hamas War
Voices across the spectrum are reflecting on the student protests taking place on college campuses across the country in response to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
“Intifada-Meets-Woodstock”: A writer in The Atlantic (Left bias) described the “Liberated Zone” where protesters are gathered at Columbia University as “intifada-meets-Woodstock,” determining that the demonstrators “seemed less
The Atlantic Reuters National Review (Opinion)Sep 26 2019
News
Senate confirms the late Justice Scalia's son to head Department of Labor
The Senate confirmed Eugene Scalia — son of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — to be the United States' next labor secretary Thursday afternoon by a vote of 53-44 along party lines.
The younger Scalia was nominated by president Trump to fill the position after former Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta resigned in July due to backlash over how he handled the case of now-dead accused
The BlazeMay 15 2024
Headline Roundup
Fact Check: How Many School Shootings Have Happened in 2024?
Sources that track the "number of U.S. school shootings" often use different criteria and definitions of "school shootings," leading to public confusion about the issues of gun safety, school safety, and violent crime.
Different Data: There are two commonly cited sources tracking U.S. "school shootings." The K-12 Violence Project, an independent group, counts any incident "when a gun is
U.S. News & World Report Education Week AllSidesJan 03 2022
Headline Roundup
Omicron Surge Complicates Return to Schools
While most U.S. schools returned to in-person learning after the holidays, thousands of schools delayed their classroom plans because of the Omicron variant.
COVID-19 cases grew rapidly over the holidays, reaching record highs of over 400,000 daily cases. Several school districts in cities like Milwaukee, Wisconsin switched to virtual learning, often citing shortages of substitute
CNN Digital Axios New York Post (News)Sep 23 2019
Opinion
Blood Libel: The Conspiracy Theory That Jews Are ‘Anti-Human’
The roots of the present-day anti-Semitic motif go through the Middle Ages and all the way back to antiquity.
Anti-Semitism has many exceptional qualities. Unlike most forms of racism, it is a conspiracy theory. Like all conspiracy theories, it is a search for the Devil, or for the Devil’s agents on earth. They are imagined not as an underclass to be exploited and despised but as a
Guest Writer - RightMay 22 2020
News
New Guidelines on Campus Sexual Assault
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
Earlier this month, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos issued new regulations on the enforcement of Title IX protections against sexual harassment. The changes are modified from a Draft Rule released for public Abridge News